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February 26,1981 Page 5
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Lights improve Warm Springs streets
Nearly 100 new street lights
will brighten the winter nights
in Warm Springs this month.
Ron Fox, Pacific Power &
Light manager in Madras, said
97 new lamps are now being
installed in several central
areas.
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“For the most part, these are
brand new lamps in housing
areas that have seen rapid
development,” said Fox. “Only
13 lights are being removed and
replaced by the new ones. Most
of the additional lighting is in
Greeley Heights, an area of new
single-family residences, the
Tenino apartment complexes
and in the Warm Springs
mobile home park.
The largest and strongest
lights have already been
installed along the main turnoff
points along Highway 26 to
upgrade intersection lighting.
Additional lamps around the
adm instration building will
improve visibilitv in another
heavily traveled area.
All the new lights are high
pressure sodium lamps which
lig h t th e s tr e e ts m o re
effectively, according to Fox.
The lights give off a soft yellow
glow instead of the harsher
white light of the mercury
vapor lamps.
Pacific Power & L ight lineman stretches to remove ties of support
from newly installed light. Recent growth in residential area
construction in Warm Springs necessitated installation of 97 new
street lights.
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COLVILLE TRIBES GET BILLION DOLLAR DEAL FOR
MOLYBDENUM MINING:
The Colville Confederated Tribes of Washington have obtained
a joint venture lease agreement with AM AX, Inc., that is expected
to bring the Colvilles income of $1 billion over 43 years. It is
thought to be the largest mineral lease from an American Indian
Tribe on record.
The agreement must still approved by the AM AX board, but
'the company has already spent about $50 milion on exploration
and have reportedly fund reserves of900 million tons of low grade
moly ore. The Colvilles have already received advances of $17
million, according to a report in Business Week.
That report says that the'tribe will receive $1 million annually
for the next five years, while the company recoups its $500 milliop
investment and then will receive about $50 million annually in a
50-50 split with the company. AM AX also has agreed to give
preference to tribal members for the 600 potential jobs, involving
a $12 million annual payroll.
In 1976 the tribe rejected an offer from a company that had been
doing explorations on the reservation since 1974. After
considering nine other proposals they selected AMAX. The
project manager for AMAX said, “It takes a sophisticated tribe to
negotiate a deal like this, but the Colvilles are right there. They
check everything.” Donald A. Aubertm is the tribal geologist.
CRITFC favors wilderness
as way to protect fish
PP & L crews expect to
Salem—February 19 at a
complete the project by the end
of the month at a cost of more congressional hearing in Salem
Kathryn Brigham, Spokes­
than $174,000.
woman for the Columbia River
Inter-tribal Fish Commission
(CRITFC), testified in favor of
wilderness as the best way to
protect anadromous fish. The
hearing was on Congressman
Weaver’s (D.-OR) proposed
potential of this energy,” Smith bill, H.R. 1511, which gives
wilderness designation to
said,
On issues related to the Oregon’s roadless areas. Two
development. Smith empha­ CRITFC member tribes, the
sized the need to provide local Warm Springs and Umatilla,
leadership in determining the are located in Oregon and they
management of lands and want to see salmon and
steelhead habitat protected in
waters.
“ O r e g o n ’s r e c o r d o f the state’s national forestland.
Ms. Brigham said the Indian
protecting our air, beaches,
cleaning up our rivers and people depend upon the
managing our lands is a proud salmon and steelhead resource
one. What better example can of the Columbia basin. “Our
you fine of how important way of life depends upon it,”
logical, effective, local control she said. “The decline of these
fish runs is therefore our
is?” Smith said.
Environmental regulations greatest concern.”
that affect farming, businesses
In her testim o n y she
and invididuals must be explained that although the
considered and reviewed in tribes recognize the value of
contest of their costs and tim b e r f o r c o m m e rc ia l
benefits, their effects on jobs purposes and the need for
and their actual impact on the balance among all forest
environm ent, Sm ith com ­ values, they lean tow ard
wilderness over timber harvest
mented.
The S u b co m m ittee on b e c a u s e “ w h en tim b e r
Insular Affairs oversees such p roduction has been the
U.S. possessions as Gaum, management objective, fish
Puerto Rico and the Virgin production has suffered.” She
Islands.
Energy demands pose critical challenge
Rep. Denny Smith has been
appointed to serve on the
House Interior Committee’s
Subcommittee on Energy and
E nvironm ent and on the
Subcom m ittee on Insular
Affairs.
“If there’s one area in which
Oregonians have excelled, it is
in th e d e v e lo p m e n t of
alternative energy sources.
Geothermal, solar, alcohol
fuels and small hydro projects
h av e a ll re s u lte d fro m
Oregonians who realize the
need to meet tom orrow ’s
energy needs today. As a
member of the Subcommittee
on Energy and Environment, I
will direct my ability toward
tu rn in g the governm ent’s
involvement more from new
agencies, studies and reports,
to actually helping individuals
and communities develop new
resources,” Smith said.
“ O ne o f th e c r itic a l
challenges we face as a nation is
the development of adequate
energy sources to meet our
en e rg y d e m a n d s. T he
government has in the past
failed to keep up with the
people on this issue, but now, I
think things will change with
the new administration,” Smith
said.
“This position is especially
important to the 2nd District.
Oregon has nine percent of the
geothermal potential of the
United States. That means we
have g e o th e rm a l energy
equivalent to an electric power
plant that produces 2,031
megawatts for 30 years,” Smith
said.
“ W hile th is en o rm o u s
resource is being used in
Klamath, Lake and Malheur
counties, these and several
other areas of the state have not
been able to realize the full
TOE NESS
listed the harmful environ­
mental changes caused by
timber harvest: “the addition of
pesticides and other toxins to
the watershed, devegetation
which diminishes the soil’s
water storage capacity and
reduces stream fows in the
critical summer months, and
siltation which decreases food
p ro d u c tio n and fills in
spawning gravel.”
The Oregon-based tribes and
the Nez Perce and Yakima
Tribes, all represented at the
hearing by Ms. Brigham,
having fish in g rig h ts at
tr ib u ta r y lo c a tio n s the
Columbia River basin as well
as on segments of the mainstem
of the Columbia. Along with
re se rv e d fis h in g rig h ts ,
explained Ms. Brigham, the
tribes’ treaties with the United
States preserved hunting and
gathering rights—traditional
activities they now pursue on
national forest lands. “Our
religion and our subsistence are
entwined with hunting and
food-gathering, as they are
with salmon and steelhead
fishing.”
“Protection of our treaty
rights therefore cannot be
separated from protection of
o u r n a tu r a l r e s o u r c e s —
resources that we share with the
people of Oregon and the
nation,” she concluded
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